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Exclude Categories from WordPress Feed

11/24/2012 Mark Jacobsen Leave a comment

Want to keep posts from a given WordPress category or categories out of your public feed? If so, just edit the template’s functions.php file and append this code…

function myFeedExcluder($query) {
 if ($query->is_feed) {
   $query->set('cat','-12');
 }
return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','myFeedExcluder');

This code will keep the category ID=”12″ out of the feed. If you want to exclude more than one category, put them in separated by commas ‘-12,-25,-33′.

Thanks to this page for this tip!

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Misc

Thankful for Being Blessed

11/22/2012 Mark Jacobsen 1 Comment

As we enter the stereotypical season of thanks I’ve been looking back at things that we’ve accomplished over the years, and I’ve realized that I have been extremely blessed. I’m blessed…

To have been born in America
To be healthy
To have parents from a working class background
To have had a good education
To have married a wonderful woman
To have healthy children
To have a great company
To have a great job
To have been taught: discipline, self-sacrifice, and hard work

For any of you that helped to heap these many blessings on me, I say “Thank You!” now, tomorrow, and forever.

Giving

It’s my unbirthday!

11/21/2012 Mark Jacobsen 1 Comment

There’s still time left in my charity:water unbirthday campaign to bring safe drinking water to people in developing countries. 100% of all donations directly fund water projects, and every dollar is proven using photos and GPS coordinates on a map.

You can even check out the results from my last “unbirthday”

The best gift is a gift to my unbirthday campaign